Mounting your local drives into folders! (Mirror)

In this guide we will be mounting your local Drives in a single folder on your C drive, so you only have to make one "bookmark" in XboxMediaCenter or map/share one drive on another PC.

You may not have as many drives as shown in this guide but you can add less or more if you want.

Start by making a folder and put it in the root of your C drive in this guide we will call it MySharedDrives!



Make subfolders in it that corresponds to your other local drives (they can be made later but its easier now)

You will be able to mount removable media like DVD/CDROMs and Card Readers for easy access to your pictures.
It will even work with Deamon Tools drives (you should get this app even if your planning not to do this guide)

TIP! I like to name my drive folders with the Drive letter first, then the size and lastly a description of the media it holds like:
D 120Gb Music / E 120Gb Pictures / F 120Gb Movies / G DVDROM / H CDROM / I Deamon DVD / J DigiCam
This way they can be sorted alphabetically and they are easily identified

Time to begin mounting your drives into the folders you just made


Right click on "My Computer"
Select Manage

To view your "removable media" (DVD/CDROMs, card readers and so on)
Select "Disk Management"
Select "Disk List" from the "View" pane to see all devices

Lets mount the drives!
You need to mount each drive so you can return to this point to add more drives.

Note: Mounting your C drive in a folder on C will cause loops when searching so its not recommended but you can put an empty folder in the share folder and call it C and just put files you want to share into it.


Right click on the drive you wish to mount in youre folder
Click "Change Drive Letter and Paths..."

Click "Add..."

Check the "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:"
Click the "Browse..." button

Find the folder you want to mount the drive in
Then Click "OK"

Add all the drives you want or need

Now youre C:\MySharedDrives folder should look something like this and when you access the "folders" you should be seeing the contents of your other drives.

/TykSak